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LTG Chris Donahue Violated The Ranger Creed When He Abandoned Americans In Afghanistan In August 2021
By John Hughes
August 14, 2023
 
US Army Rangers and graduates of the Ranger School are made to memorize and internalize the Ranger Creed. One of the last stanzas is as follows:

“I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy and under no circumstances will I ever embarrass my country.”

An infantry officer before I became an Army doctor, I graduated from Ranger School and tried to live my life by the famous creed. Two years ago, many Americans looked in horror at the debacle that unfolded in Afghanistan as the security collapsed in Afghanistan and the last refuge of potential safety was the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. As the situation deteriorated, then MG Christopher Donahue was sent to take charge of the security at the airport during the evacuation.

https://armedforces.press/ltg-chris-donahue-violated-the-ranger-creed-when-he-abandoned-americans-in-afghanistan-in-august-2021/
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address